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Tonight marked the 3rd Annual Pillow Fight/Primal Scream. Not that we needed to tell you that; anyone who wasn’t getting a good night’s rest before a final (ha!) or listening to very loud music probably just heard about 25 straight minutes of screaming emanating from South Lawn.
The be-pillowed masses started to gather at 11:50 PM or so, slowly migrating out of Butler and the dorms and congregating by the sundial. An official-sounding girl with a pillow (UPDATE: “The lovely” Nina Bell, founder of the pillow fight Correct UPDATE: Lindsey Kaley, this year’s event organizer.) instructed the ranks to split in two, and half retreated to the steps of Butler, while half stayed put at the sundial.
A midnight exactly, the two troops charged towards one another—pillows were flung, screams were primal. Bwog personally noticed two pairs of glasses break and heard of the destruction of at least one pillowcase.
Bwog asked one sophomore who the winner of the pillow fight was, the Butler side or the sundial side. She paused. “Neither. The system. The man.”
More portraits of cotton-y carnage below.
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@Yo asdf Josh Branfman
@Thomas Bunsen haha oh shit I think that is Kaley’s IRL dad
@Mr. Kaley Lindsey!!! Wait till I tell your Mother!
Your Father
@Bethmann-Hollweg And whoever said that college was for grown ups?
@katwill Hey man, I was just demonstrating your warrior-like-ness.
@Mind you, Some pillow fights actually took place in the dorms as well, for the lazy.
@Anonymous For the record: Pillow fight founder Nina Bell is Australian.
It had to be said.
@grace p i second icb. lindsey IS the greatest.
@Riven This was soo much fun and stress relieving… until a guy who did not have a pillow in the middle of the mass hit me right in the jaw with punch… what a f’n a**hole…. he was really lucky that I dont like violence and that I did not beat him into a pulp after that action
@Hah! Act tough. I bet if someone has the guts to punch you in the face, you wouldn’t stand a chance in a real fight.
Let’s face it: when it comes to physical feats of strength (yes I’m aware of the reference) Columbia students are pretty lowly.
@pitr Christ.
I may be an alumnus of Columbia, but no one ever truly graduates from the battlefield.
Also lolbama.com lives on, thank you very much.
@resident douchebag UH I THINK YOU MEAN SEMI-ANNUAL
@I think not? The pillow fight has traditionally only been held in the spring semester. Maybe there should be a campus-wide snowball fight for the primal scream in the winter?
@alexw Nina, you are one of the few people to whom the epithet “the lovely” is perpetually affixed.
@mr. Mister http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillow_fight
a nice Columbia mention at the bottom
@ianc-b lindsey is the greatest.
@Yelena Lindsey Kaley was the “official sounding girl”
@alexw I’m going to write a parody of that A.E. Housman poem and name it “To An Athlete Dying Never” and I’ll dedicate it to Pitr Strait.
@Atticus Never At first, I thought that was a threat directed towards me, but then I realized that I cannot read.
I think this post should be dedicated to the UNIVERSAL SOLDIER.
DONOVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@that bottom pic has a 4some of heros on the battlefield: disco, jezza, yago, and pitr
@a fan Dan is 80 years old at heart and has been labeled by some as “a catch.”
@note last picture pitr strait, an alumni, caught reliving days of yore.
go update lolbama.com, pitr.
@Face Puncher yes eva, it does!
@Fruit Pauncher improv comedy pillow fighters.
@victim Dan smacked down quite a few people with his crutch / pillow
@actually while Nina is the originator of the pillow fight tradition, it was not Nina Bell who split people into two groups. I think that was a girld from the facebook event.
@yeah! this was the first year that happened. and it was awesome!
@DHI Yo my bad, I got there just before the charge, after the groups were divided, so I just assumed Nina had done it.
As the saying goes, I have made an ass out of “u” and “me,” but don’t blame the main reporter.
@Nina I was patiently waiting for my pillow to arrive, watching the mayhem from the sundial. Twas indeed Alex’s idea, executed by Lindsey.
In other news, I think I’m still seeing spots
@alexw I split everyone into two groups. The facebook group lady yelled it out for me because I was shy.
Mystery solved.
@pillow fighter Alex, you are many things, but shy is not one of them.
@alexw Go back to your bath.
@fun times however, someone punched me in the face. Does that give me street cred?
@dan is probably amazing. nina bell needs a good screw.
@The Dink yeah, DHI was tearing shit up out there. Packard was takin people down too. Yago in his helmet was a machine.
@Dan's Friend Dan Amzalog is the fucking man
@then why don’t you spell it right, HUH?
i want more photos!
@I vote that we make pillow fight bi-annual.
@YES! ESPECIALLY when we are in WINTER GEAR = extra padding.
@awww never have i loved my school so much as tonight.
@DHI Medicine Sunday Night (Temporary Like a Pillow)
@AWESOME! Nice job, Bwog!
@DHI William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carrol
With a goddamn pillow
@The man with the crutch is Dan. He enjoys Disney characters, good beer, and opera. He is single, aside from rendezvous with the mayor of West Harlem, and his skin is olive and luscious.
@excellent that was a great form of stress relief and conflict resolution. next time a bunch of columbia students feel the need to strike or protest, they should try that first…
@Why didn't Bob Dylan show up?
The answer is pillow-ing in the wind!
@well.. it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a pillow to cry
@Applepie Nordic Just like a pillow.
@DHI Where am I in these pictures?
I demand pictures of myself because of my human ego.
@emilyw Yo Discoe you are totally in the last picture on the left cradling your pillow as if it were a newborn baby. not very warrior-like.
@DHI a) This is pretty clearly some sort of truce-zone (probably pre-fight?)
b) You don’t hold a baby behind the body in the crook of one arm. That is horrible parenting.
c) Anyone I hit with that pillow knows if I was warrior-like or not.
@katwill Considering you punched me in the mouth AND are responsible for the two separate headaches I’m currently experiencing, I’d have to say you’re at least 85% warrior-like.
@DHI Katherine, “punched” is a big exaggeration for accidentally scraping you with my knuckles which were holding a pillow while my hand was coming back. And I always been good to you.
Just for the record, I ain’t hit anybody else with non-pillow materials.
@300 SPARTAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
@Looks like fun But when’s the panty raid?
@wow someone was out there with a crutch? probably injured the other leg…
@yeah well, maybe that’s what he uses as a pillow. it’s ok – we’re a tolerant school.